IWMW 2013
It was a privilege to be able to attend the IWMW 2013 (Institutional Web Management Workshops) conference in Bath this year. The theme of the … Read more
The design process: taking a coursera.org course on design
The webdev team recently welcomed Jonathan Thirlwell as our UX developer. This role is an entirely new one for our team, and for web development … Read more
UniKent WebDev Links of the Week: jquery nested, enquire, vagrant, emmet, backbone
Here’s some stuff I found, used, played with over the last week or so. All the below can of course be found on GitHub too. … Read more
The Kent Google Analytics Panel
Google Analytics is an immensely powerful tool for helping you work out how to architect your website structure and target particular content at a particular … Read more
Presenting at the BCS Agile Lecture Series
The Web Development team was invited to present a case study at the BCS Agile Lecture Series in Bristol on 19 March 2013, which we … Read more
Quality Assurance!
It recently struck me how putting in time and effort as a development team into quality assuring our products yields numerous benefits. For one, we get to … Read more
UX Developer vacancy
The Web Development team at the University of Kent is looking for a talented UX Developer. Full details: http://bit.ly/XMlf4f Closing date: Sunday 17th February 2013 Interviews: … Read more
Laravel 3: calling bundles from the CLI
We’ve been using Laravel for almost a year now in the Kent Uni webdev team on projects such as our course data tool. We’ve found it … Read more
Introducing The Site Configuration Tool
The Site Configuration Tool (SCT) is a tool for managing websites at the University of Kent using our Pantheon web templating system. It was produced … Read more